From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265373AbUFHXE2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:04:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265378AbUFHXE2 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:04:28 -0400 Received: from gizmo11bw.bigpond.com ([144.140.70.21]:58586 "HELO gizmo11bw.bigpond.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S265373AbUFHXE0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 8 Jun 2004 19:04:26 -0400 Message-ID: <40C645F7.6070704@bigpond.net.au> Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 09:04:23 +1000 From: Peter Williams User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624 Netscape/7.1 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Con Kolivas CC: Linux Kernel Mailinglist , William Lee Irwin III , Zwane Mwaikambo Subject: Re: [PATCH] staircase scheduler v6.4 for 2.6.7-rc3 References: <200406090023.54421.kernel@kolivas.org> In-Reply-To: <200406090023.54421.kernel@kolivas.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Con Kolivas wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > Here is an updated full version of the staircase scheduler (not attached for > brevity of email): > > http://ck.kolivas.org/patches/2.6/2.6.7-rc3/patch-2.6.7-rc3-s6.4 > > 25 files changed, 264 insertions(+), 545 deletions(-) There was no need to add the extra overhead of a flag to indicate that a task was queued for scheduling. Testing whether run_list is empty achieves the same thing as reliably as the old array == NULL test did. -- Dr Peter Williams pwil3058@bigpond.net.au "Learning, n. The kind of ignorance distinguishing the studious." -- Ambrose Bierce